Sentences with phrase «properties of single atoms»

Spiralling electron beams have the potential to measure and manipulate the properties of single atoms.

In addition to the unique energetic properties of single atoms, the CO2 conversation reaction was facilitated by the interaction of the nickel atoms with a surrounding sheet of graphene.

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These fundamental properties made Xu and Jarillo - Herrero suspect that chromium triiodide would retain its magnetic characteristics when stripped down to a single layer of atoms.

The most widely studied set of quantum numbers is that for a single electron in an atom: not only because it is useful in chemistry, being the basic notion behind the periodic table, valence (chemistry) and a host of other properties, but also because it is a solvable and realistic problem, and, as such, finds widespread use in textbooks.

The wonder material graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms with extraordinary properties, has been proposed as one solution.

Borophene — stable, single - atom - thick layers of boron — displays remarkable properties [Also see Report by Mannix et al..]

Two examples: graphene — single - atom - thick sheets of carbon atoms — has unique mechanical, electrical, and optical properties; and two - dimensional electron gases (2DEG)-- planar collections of electrons supported at the interface between certain semiconductors such as gallium arsenide — allow the observation of such emergent behaviors as the quantum Hall effect and the spin Hall effect.

Graphene — a hexagonal lattice of single layer carbon atoms exhibiting outstanding charge and heat transport properties — has garnered extensive research and development interest.

Usually, only the wave properties of single particles play a role, but now researchers at the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Vienna University of Technology have succeeded in quantum mechanically controlling hundreds of Rubidium atoms of an ultracold Bose - Einstein - condensate by shaking it in just the right way.

Phase change materials that change their optical properties depending on the arrangement of the atoms allow for the storage of several bits in a single cell.

Phosphorene — a single layer of phosphorous atoms — was isolated for the first time in 2014, allowing physicists to begin exploring its properties experimentally and theoretically.

The finding that a single layer of atoms modifies properties of light and other electromagnetic radiation has implications for controlling light at subwavelength scales in photonic devices such as LEDs and photovoltaic cells.

Indeed, the team is expanding their study to the properties of the nearly ubiquitous hydronium and methyl groups, which contain a single oxygen or carbon atom and three hydrogen atoms.

The results demonstrate that the positions of tens of thousands of atoms can be precisely identified and then fed into quantum mechanics calculations to correlate imperfections and defects with material properties at the single - atom level.

The 3 - D reconstruction reveals the arrangement of atoms in unprecedented detail, enabling the scientists to measure chemical order and disorder in individual grains, which sheds light on the material's properties at the single - atom level.

(Graphene is a single - atom - thick sheet of carbon with a host of unusual properties.)